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Great gambler. We're talking everything, all the angles, who's going to win and we let him go off on basketball a little bit as well. Speaking of basketball, N.B.A. playoffs started, so we're going to talk about every game we saw this weekend. Great Monday show, great time of year.

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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Monday, April 17th, Tax day. Oh, I'm done. oh, tax day.

File that extension. Yeah, oh Mba. Oh, you did them, you did them.

MBA playoffs have begun. Oh, Hank saying, No, yes, I did. Yes, I did. MBA playoffs have begun.

It's a great time of year. We're going to get to Whitney talking hockey playoffs, but we had playoff basketball this weekend boys, and we got everyone injured. Yeah, well, John Moran has a pretty much broken hand, yeah.

That's the diagnosis of it. He basically broke his hand, he fell on it, it looked bad, he can't.

The official report was that he can't unball a pair of socks with his right hand, so that's normally a test. Yeah, I don't. Was that a shooting hand, or was it the hand that he uses to play basketball?

I was going to say what was worse, the the pretty much broken hand, or the fact that the entire internet was like, not as, not as gun hand. Yeah, all at the same exact time, but yeah, he got hurt.

Yannis got hurt back, blew out his back. That looks like I feel like Yannis is going to play, he's a gamer. And then Tyler Hero broke his hand. Yup.

That was an officially broken hand, and Anthony Davis had a stinger. Well, Anthony Davis is the king of being out for the rest of his life. Oh, no, wait, he's coming back out of the tunnel. It looked bad. Cause when he went to the locker room right before halftime, he was like he was looking at his hand and he was like, I can't feel my entire arm.

He had a stinger, he came back in, uh, but the real story of that game was Austin Reeves. Yeah, Austin Reeves, aka him.

He is him well, Hillbilly Kobe. We should go, let's go in order, let's go in order of the chronological order, so that we don't get mixed up. So we should start with Saturday.

We'll get to to Austin Reeves, who was fantastic. Uh, Max's Sixers started off our playoff journey. Uh, there's a question in the room of whether Max even watched the game. No, he watched the game, he watched the game, but it was you watched the entire game, right?

I saw a lot more tweets about Max shopping than I. I don't even think you said one thing about the game, besides talk about the Celtics. That's false. I watched most of the game, for sure. Okay?

So how? What was your big takeaway from the game? For most? James Harden is fucking back. James Harden's not injured yet. The Sixers broke a franchise record for most threes in a playoff game. I alluded, I told Max, I whispered to him before we came in here, because, listen, I, I've been through it with the city of Philadelphia, the Eagles.

We're not going back down that road. But what happened? Shut up, hank, Uh. But without a team in the N.B.A. playoffs, uh, the Bulls lost on Friday night. They almost got in.

I put out a shirt for it. Uh, I need to find something to root for, and I'm ruining friend Blake. Well, I'm rooting for one person now. No team, one person. And his name is B-ball Paul, because that was electric. I don't know if everyone in this room saw it, but Paul Reed, the backup center for him bead. His Twitter handle is B-ball Paul, which is a great Twitter handle.

He went off, he scored a 10 point, 11 points in 13 minutes. And the entire crowd, Philly crowd, was chanting B-ball Paul when he went to the free throw line, and it was just a beautiful, beautiful moment. Good sports town. Now. I would also ask, did they put anything on the Jumbotron to make them chant B-ball Paul? Because when Embiid was at the free throw line, they had to start flashing the MVP. And that wasn't an organic chant that was that was sent down from above.

Well, that's a mark of good ownership actually is by having something like that flash on there. B-ball Paul also had a quote after the game when he was asked about B-ball, Paul. So this is a from B-ball Paul Paul Reed, he said. Five for six, a couple of dunks, a couple of rebounds, a couple of steals.

That's what Paul Reed do. He said that himself, I love this guy so fucking much. The fact that his Twitter handle is B-ball, you know, he made it when he was like, 14 years old and was like, Yeah, I'm B-ball, Paul. I like basketball.

This is Paul, he likes to play basketball.

I'm loving what I'm seeing from James Harden, too. I don't know how long it's going to last. Nobody does. It's really like a crapshoot. It's he's a bomb that's waiting to explode.

But from what we've seen so far, James Harden, I think we can say, is back. He's back to having expectations where he should be James Harden in the playoff. We should also just remind people that we've seen one playoff game and we're going to overreact to all of it. Yeah, now I also watched, you know, I watched most of the game like Max.

So I'm basically an expert, but from what I saw from James Harden, he doesn't look fat and the shots are going in. It looks like he's trying right now, and if James Harden is actually trying, and he's still, you know, he's probably what? 80 of what James Harden was four years ago, 80 of James Harden right now is. I think he's good enough to be the best one two combination between him and Embiid in the East, in the East and the big three. He forgot about people.

Actually, you know what's funny, too, and like, I'm half joking. But Embiid does need someone to give him at least a little bit of break, because Embiid has had playoffs in the past. Where his body is broken down, gotten injuries. People, Paul might be the the the missing link. And and P.J. Tucker was awesome, too. I feel like he was all over the place, yeah.

Um, well, you don't know, this is disgusting. I watched, I watched 85 of the game on on Saturday. Sound, wait, hold on a second.

Hold on a second and I don't want to skip ahead. Hank, what were you doing on Saturday?

That's a great question. So was I? You were playing golf? I had to golf and then I had to be at the NYPD, my tee time, uh, 1130..

Huh really? yeah, that's a lie, you had to.

It was at 1130.

What do you mean? Had to golf? I had to golf, and then I had to go to the mean, had to Frankie.

Frankie is a is someone we work with for play as part of my corporate duties. I have to, you know, make sure all the all the people we work with are happy with their roles and coming up with new ideas and stuff. In the golf course, a great place to do that. Yeah, you were closing deals out there on the golf course.

Pretty much what. What new ideas did you guys come up? Oh, we have a great idea coming up that we're going to shoot this summer. You'll be involved. Oh, what is it?

It's called the Writer Cup. Oh, you already had that idea, though. Nice calling Frankie. right now, I think it's a great name. Thanks, Jake.

Very cool. it's a very cool name. But, uh, to answer your question that you haven't asked, I, uh, didn't see the beginning of the game. Checked my phone. They're up 30..

I didn't watch a second of the game. Yeah, I should have known you were projecting on Max. No, no, hank, is this just because you're laser focused on the 76ers?

I'm not laser focused. I was focused on the Hawks, but then again, like I looked at my phone after golf, they're up 30. I was like, all right, game's over, series done.

Wrapped it up, Uh, all right, last thing on Sixers nets. Um, dinwiddie, uh. We have to watch this because he has been talking a big game and this is. This was his first game since Kyle Kuzma called him Din shitty, which is a great, absolutely fantastic nickname, shitty, and he wasn't good.

He was just throwing lobs to no one. Didn't Shitty is like his career might be over. Yeah, I, I, I. I don't want to overstate it, but when you get called didn't shitty, it might be a wrap. No, that's a. It's almost as bad as Westbrook.

You're right, because Westbrook, you can yell all the time, and mixed company didn't, shitty, didn't shitty might actually cut to the core worse than than than Westbrook. A seven year old thing to say that, you know, like the the the adult, uh, mature side of your brain is like, who cares? That's a stupid insult.

Like, it's coming something different, but then everyone can revert to, like, seven years old, like, didn't shitty he like, he ended you dude. It's like, it's a very funny thing, yeah.

Didn't shitty. Yeah, he said. he's on. didn't shitty Island. uh, but yeah, he was bad.

And, uh, it w it was. I looked back because I was like, when did Kuzma say that? It was April 12th? So they didn't have a game that was right at the end of the regular season. So how will didn't Shitty respond to being called didn't shitty?

And not at all. And yeah, not, not well right now. not well is is the answer. Um, okay, Celtics Hawks.

Hank, you're you. What'd you think? Uh, I thought it was a great game. Al Horford, U.H. played 38 minutes at six points, nine rebounds, two assists. Jalen Brown played 37 minutes at 29 points, 12 rebounds, three assists. That's a great, he had a great game.

Uh, Tatum, Uh. He was two or six from three, so he could probably improve a little bit there. But overall above 50 shooting, that's what you want. I want to give a shout out to the broadcast team for doing probably seven minutes nonstop on his hand. Injury, Yeah.

And if we're talking about the different types of bandages that he's used to try to cover up the five stitches from picking up the vase. Yeah, uh, I guess it worked. Whatever they're doing, there was one option where he had, like, three fingers taped together. They've tried everything.

So he's got the most medically look after hand in America right now. I'd say it's working. Yeah, I also have something for you, hank a little, uh, if we wanted to do, like a signs jersey, Jerry signs situation.

I read an article, Uh, did you know that Joe Missoula likes to get choked out?

In bed, no, no. And like jiu jitsu, jiu jitsu, he's got a jiu jitsu instructor who has he's, so the story goes, he. When he got the job, uh, whatever it was September, whatever it was, he immediately found a jiu jitsu gym in Boston called The Guy Got.

The instructor has been learning jiu jitsu, it's been helping with his breathing, getting out of. You know the the. The lead of the article is, once you get a choke, hold your brain, your mind goes cuckoo. And so, like, trying to figure out, you know, tough situations, everything but the weird part of the story. So his jiu jitsu instructor? Oh, here's Frankie Borelli, let's just see.

Hey Frankie, yo uh, hank, hank copped to it. But you guys golf yesterday. what time is your tee time?

Um.

I think 11.

Okay, all right, but he didn't watch any of the Celtics game, what?

He didn't watch any of the Celtics game. We played really fast. Oh, okay, all right, you're trying to cover for him.

All right, thank you, Frankie. He already copped to it, he said. He didn't see any of it. We played really fast.

Oh okay, all right. thank you Frankie. all right bye.

Um, so his jiu jitsu, his I can't get that word out. Jiu jitsu instructor U.H. started giving him lessons all the way through February. Joe Mazzola didn't know his jiu jitsu instructor was flying in commuting from Denver to give him the lessons. He has a gym in Denver as well. He just didn't tell him.

He'd be like Joe Mazzola, be like Kim, Can I come in tomorrow morning? He was like, no problem, he'd hop on a red eye flight and get to Boston. So I think Celtics Nuggets have to be the signs, right could be for his jiu jitsu instructor.

I just love the idea of a coach trying to simulate high pressure situations in any way possible. To the point where he just he hires a guy to physically choke him out so that he can, he can put. He should have just signed Latrell Spruill. Yeah, that would have been a better use of time, yeah, being assistant coach.

Uh, but yeah, you're feeling good, hank? This is a no, no, no issue series. Yeah, if this goes six, we're in trouble, okay?

Trey Young by the way, uh, his last seven is really, really good. well in Trey Young, the last seven playoff games, eight for 49 from three. I don't think that's good. That's like, Yeah, but that's less than 20, yeah.

But you remember that one sick game that he had in the garden? Yeah, he needs to just play the next. yeah, play the next every single time.

Yeah, but that feels bad. Uh, it's going to be walking the park for Hank, so he doesn't need to watch the games, honestly.

If I were you, Hank, I wouldn't watch any of them because if you start watching, they might start losing. Yeah, don't use any of your energy on this series. No, listen, this is a big, this is a big two weeks for for me, every night, playoffs, playoff bees in two weeks.

No, but every night, like the way the schedule works in these first two rounds, okay, yeah, there's games every night, yeah.

It should, if it all goes well for you, it should be like the next two months. I guess, yeah, yeah.

That's a lot of sports, a lot of sports. Do you have time for that? Yeah, I've cleared my schedule.

I'm I told you guys, I'm grinding, so we're what we're. Uh, now, what a quarter of the way to Armageddon in the part of my take Studio Six or Celtics. I don't think it's going to be that bad. And Max knows that, like, it's going to be where Patel's going to smoke them. Max is going to get excited for like a quarter when they go up or something.

Sixers will do something really stupid as an organization.

I'm not like my sites are are much farther than the Philadelphia 76.

For Max, it's like, that's his Super Bowl, which again, we know how that goes. I'm focused on a on a championship chip or bust for you. Yeah, what about B-ball, Paul?

That's scary at all. I literally didn't hear that name until you started talking about him today, so it should scare you people. Paul fucking arrived and can't even play well.

Well, yeah, but it doesn't matter. B-ball, Paul will play well. You should see this one highlight where he, like, didn't know, he like, had the ball in the middle of the paint. He didn't really know what to do.

He just went through his legs reverse and then and then dunked and it was sick. It's B-ball Paul, yeah, b-ball Paul thing, yeah.

That's what Paul Reed do, quoting Paul Reed, Uh, okay, next up we have, uh, the Knicks, Cavs, the Knicks. By the way. This was the first time is kind of a stupid stat, but the first time. The Knicks and the Kings both want to play off game on the same day since 2001, let's go.

So the Knicks, uh, big playoff win. I think it was the first time they won a road game one in like, 20 years. Plus, uh, and yeah, the Knicks, they looked good. I'm just pumped for the garden. I can't wait for the Knicks to play meaningful basketball in the garden.

It's very cliche to say, but it is. It's more fun as as a league when the Knicks are playing well. Because they've been such a joke for so long that they've, like, it's just been a non-factor. But having New Yorkers do the thing where they freak out only to get their dreams crushed is very funny. It will never not make me laugh. To the Knicks wearing the Michael Jordan logo on their uniforms, like, it's the most cucked thing in all professional sports, it really is, Uh, Max, are you? Are the Knicks your second team?

Cause they are the Villanova Knicks. Josh Hart was awesome, Jalen Brunson is awesome, they're the Villanova Knicks.

Uh, no, I hate Knicks fans, but I do love Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart. Jalen Brunson, most underrated basketball player in the history of the games. Whoa, that's a big statement. History of the game. uh, this game also. Uh, again, we're overreacting to stuff.

Um, it did, kind of, I don't want to say, yeah. It tickled me a little bit that that Donovan Mitchell went off. And he's back in the exact same spot of, uh, scoring a ton of points in a loss. And everyone being like, why is this big man not more aggressive? Because Mobley was soft as shit like that, that box out at the end of the game when, uh, he just let Julius Randall run right by him with 10 seconds left. After they were, they played good defense, they were going to be down too.

Yeah, and they were going to have the ball for a a game time game winning shot and then they just didn't rebound at all. Mobley just sat there while Julius Randall bullied right through him. But it's just it is funny watching.

I know the Cavs, like I think most Cavs fans are like, Oh, this is a year or two away because they have a lot of talent. But they also don't have like a like Darius Garland's or second best shooter. And he, I think he took like no shots in the fourth quarter. But Donovan Mitchell history repeating itself. He is played 40 playoff games, he scored 30 plus in 20 of those 40..

And he's exactly 10 and 10 in those games, that's awesome. So it's like the like he. Just. He will go off, he will take a ton of shots and then his big man won't help him. So when I was watching this game, it's, and you might call me casual for picking up on this for the very first time. But have you ever heard of Sunny, the soft drink, sunny like study delight, which we know that was. I learned the other day that you who's not chocolate milk, chocolate water, chocolate drink, chocolate water.

Yeah, so that looks like Hank and Billy didn't know. No, no, I knew that I was never a you who fan, so that doesn't surprise me.

That's why it, uh, it's called Star. Yeah, I knew it. Starry. The lemon lime sports drink, it's the official soft drink of the NBA.

I've never heard of it until this week and you can't find it anywhere, but it's all over all these NBA commercials and all over every NBA game you can't find. I'm not, I'm not sure that Starry exists. Oh so, it's a Sierra Mist rebrand. is it? Is it Sierra Miss?

Yeah, say goodbye to Sierra. Miss Pepsico is replacing the lemon lime soda with Start now. Is it the same formula? Cause I, I was, uh, I was a Sierra Miss Stan.

Interesting, Starry Yeah, that's a weird name for it. Sierra Miss was a great name.

Sierra Miss was a great drink, too. It's the mist off of a fucking mountain, but yeah, it's everywhere, it's everywhere in the NBA right now, and you can't find it in a store. I don't, I don't think they made a fake soft drink.

All right, I'm just going off. This is Starry better than Sierra Miss. We found Star to be decidedly different from its predecessor. For one thing, it's noticeably less sweet.

Oh, which is good, that that they're saying, which is good, I'm not, so it's a seltzer water, yeah.

Sierra Miss was made with real sugar, while Star uses high fructose corn syrup because it was less cloying. What does that word C l o y n g? Sorry, citrus flavor read cleaner and crisper than in the older formula.

It's less, it's less sweet, but it's got high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar. Now this is one of those things and I don't want to get political here. But the president of the United States should have to do a press conference about something like this. It feels like a big enough change that they should have to, like, say, Hey guys, you know Sierra Miss? Yeah, of course, we know Sierra Miss.

It's gone, Starry's here, Sierra Miss is popular, but it was good, but it wasn't it. But you literally drink gatorade zero and mezcal mixed together, that's fact or fiction fact.

That's delicious, uh, but hank, what I'm saying is Sierra Miss is alcohol drinker, we're talking about soft drinks. You're going hard. It's still, though, a brand that everyone knows.

Like, all right, so maybe not presidential press. Amber alert me. Do it on the phone, where it's like it. Did a five-year-old girl get kidnapped? Or is there a tornado in Manhattan?

This does I want that? Kind of like, Whoa, holy shit? And he's like, No, it's Sierra Miss. This does feel like a Biden special, much like Jill, Biden invited Iowa to the White House to try to get those votes in the primary.

This is a big handout to big corn, yeah, to the corn syrup. Yeah, true, good point.

I've been in on big corn for a long time, but get deeper on Starry. Fine, fine. Yeah, they're the ones blowing up the milk factories.

Who's behind this? Oh yeah, all the cows exploded. That was you who? They probably did that.

Right, anyways, looking to start? Uh, okay, that was a cabs next. I'm excited for that series.

Uh, by the way, we're we're watching Clippers sons as we tape, so we will recap. We were actually joking that we were going to start in the first half when the sons were down like 10. We would have gotten off so many. Chris Paul jokes and I. This is. It is always fun to just overreact to all of this and have it be just completely wrong. Uh, but it looks like it's good games.

Sons, sons are still struggling. This is where Westbrook, having him on your team is a disaster. Like he, you just don't want him to have the ball. He's demanding, he's demanding.

It's like, give it to Kawhi Westbrook. If he gets the ball, he's just going to shoot it, his teammates are doing it. If you've ever been the shittiest player on a court and pick up. You know exactly the situation where you're wide open and somebody looks at you and then immediately looks away from you, he's clapping.

He's just like, give it to me, give me the ball standing there. He's like, I'm on the. They're not giving it to him. He just said, I'm on this team too, give Westbrook the ball.

Look at him, he's pissed. Yeah, he's been playing well for the Clippers, but this exact situation is when there's just no way it goes well.

That was you either got to get him out of the game or you have to, just you have to let him take every shot. Yeah, you have Kawhi, Kawhi should be point guard for the rest of the team.

Do you see his stat line right now? Yeah, three of 18 from the field, that is insane.

He's got to shoot his way out. It's west shitty.

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Yeah, it doesn't exist. I looked high and low for it, meaning I went to two separate bodega. I mean, it will exist officially when Frank does a soda review.

That's true, that will be the moment that Starry has arrived, but he probably has it on the back burner. Sorry, damn okay.

So just from the little research, as of January 9th, 2023, Sierra Miss was discontinued. And they weren't, uh, making any more of them. That's what I need to know because I don't really care that much about a new brand coming out, right? But when they discontinue something I want to be, I want to be notified so I can go to the store and stock up on Sierra Miss.

Dude, do you know um stone wheat thin or no stone wheat? Uh fuck? no, no, not wheat thins. uh, what are they called?

Stonehenge No. stone wheat crackers. Is that what they're called? they? Oh yeah, stone wheat thins.

Yeah, yeah, you know, you know, the blue box, not wheat thins. Yeah, they just completely ended that.

What? I had to buy some on eBay, yeah, then you got to hoard them, yeah.

And then you got to get mad at guests that come by and accidentally drink your Sierra miss. Wait, these crackers are gone forever. Yeah, that's tough, yeah.

I see these ones, you probably recognize them. Oh, what the fuck, yeah, gone forever.

If they ever discontinue Hint of lime tostitos, I'm going to need at least like four weeks notice for that. So I can just I can hoard it like people were hoarding like PPE equipment, yeah.

Started Covid? Just have a garage filled with it. Yeah, Sierra Miss was always second fiddle to sprite, though. That's true. You have a small mind.

You're not saying not even close to second fiddle? Yeah, not even comparable. Are you discontinued? They just got rain out of the rain, out of the rain out of the building.

Would you put so? They just said, all right, number two seven up is better than CMS. Disagree? You know what? You're exposing yourself as not being a real taco Bell head? I am a real, trust me, I am a real.

Talk about head and I. I voiced my concerns to the highest levels that I could. Yeah, Sierra Miss Socks, you saw, you feel that strong mountain dew.

Great, so we've got to see if sprite great, well, yeah, mountain dew is, I mean, come on, that's now we're now.

We're on a totally different, right? But Pepsi and Coke are very close. Really doesn't. doesn't matter to me, one way or the other. Diet, Pepsi diet, Coke, same thing.

Sprite and Sierra missed by far the widest margin in terms of those two companies. You're eating out of the out of the hand of big LeBron. The LeBron James endorsement got you to be like, Yeah, I love Sprite. I wish I want to be like LB.J. You have said that.

Okay, Kings Warriors, this game was awesome. this game was awesome, the Kings fans. They hadn't won a playoff game since 2006 game four against the Spurs.

It had been a long time and they absolutely delivered, cause that was an electric, electric environment like the beam, the ultra light beam in Sac Town, it was so fun.

The environment did look awesome. Yeah, they, they showed up. I shout out to Kings fans. That looked like the funnest place in the world to be.

But I think a very underrated sound that you hear in a N.B.A. games is like a Steph Curry. Three. That silences, Oh, yeah, don't want to get from the corner? Yeah, the crazy silence that happens right after, where everyone just goes, Oh shit, not again.

And that clip of Steph just running everywhere like he is, it's gotta be so annoying. So they asked Aaron Fox afterwards, and he actually brought up. He was like, remember when J.R. Smith said, like, Deli almost died, cause Deli almost died?

He had to get IVS and like, being like, you know what? I think Deli would have died. I think gladly he would go down in history, knowing as he's the guy that died by defending Steph Curry. Yeah, so dear.

And Fox was like, Yeah, that's. That's how I feel like he. It's very hard to chase him around. He just never, ever, ever stops moving. But yeah, this game was awesome. I actually think, put put a pin in this, Jake, please for us, uh, when we do Kentucky Sports Radio, uh, this summer, does this count as a tournament win?

For absolutely, because Darren Fox and Malik Monk, uh, both in their playoff debut go for over 30. Darren Fox had the second most uh points in a playoff debut. Luca was number one a few years ago.

He had a 38.

He was sensational. So I think this is, I think this is a win for Cal. I think Cal should be like, Update the record books. The Kings beat the Warriors game one with two of my.

It should also count as a win over Davidson in that final or in that sweet 16.

Yes, but I am, I am, like, you know, like people who listen to the show a long time. We are true sports fans and that we love. Like, just fan bases that have been kept out forever. And the Kings like, they've gone through so much shit. Trying to move the team, always being the forgotten team out in West, like forgotten team in California, so it was. It felt like a special night.

I know they still have a lot of work to do, but we're big believers in. Like, you have to enjoy the ride, so if you're a Kings fan at that game last night, you should be celebrating like you want a championship. I know there's a lot more to go, but, like, enjoy the ride. What percentage of people in the crowd that day did not remember being alive the last time the Kings won a playoff game?

Probably, probably like 15, I'd say like 20 of the fans there, so yes, celebrate anyone 20 or anyone like 22 or younger. Well, also, I'm going to count if you're like in your mid twenties, or I guess it would be a little bit. If you're in your forties. And you were so drunk that night that you forgot, then that's still a cool experience for you to remember the first one we also had in this game. Jake, you might want to earmuff this probably the worst question ever asked by a journalist post-game.

So a journalist asked Steve Kerr, Uh, no matter what happens? First time Kings and Warriors played in the playoffs, is it kind of a win-win for Northern California? Because both teams fans can go to the opposing teams arena? Yeah, and Steve Kerr was like, We don't care about Northern California, we care about the Warriors.

That's bullshit, that's bullshit. Steve Kerr. Just imagine asking a coach after losing the game being like, but like, this region, kind of worth we want as a region, yeah.

Humboldt County has got some weed farmers right now that are just firing their their AK 47s into the air. Just happy for the part of the state. Finally put one on the map for big Norcal. Crazy, crazy, so yeah.

Congrats to the Kings. Still work to be done. I think Jordan Pool got hurt, another one that we got. He rolled his ankle so, and Wiggins had a chair.

Wiggins was, I mean, it was first time he played in a long time. That three in the corner to to basically win the game like that was like a whoa. The Warriors, like, aren't completely unstoppable. I would say that this is a win for Northern California, for the district, because you've got, yeah. The Kings came out, they showed out in their home arena, that's great. And then the Warriors prove that. They can just add one of their great players back in the rotation and be decent, at least decently good and threatening in the playoffs.

That's exactly what happened last year with Steph Curry. Yeah, I'm excited for the rest of this series, I feel like every game is going to be awesome. And I, yeah, I as a fan, I was going to win this pocket as a as a fan of points.

This is maybe my favorite series. If you like points, this is the place to be. It's so much fun, yeah, first time to teammates making their debut scored over 30 cents.

I'll give you the I'll give you the team in the in the year, if you want to guess, Little Jeff.

1993 Hornets 1993 Hornets. You might get one of them, you won't get pulled. Larry Johnson Nope.

Mugsy Bogues No. Alonzo Morning Yes, and Illinois legend D Brown, Kendall Gill Head Kendall Gill and Alonzo Morning Hornets were unstoppable in the gym.

Yeah, a little trivia for everyone, just go around, give you a little trivia to walk, or I have another one for you later. All right, Lakers, Grizzlies.

Yeah, I mean, Austin Reeves is him, he literally said it, he's him, he's and Rui Hachimora.

Rui Himchimora Yeah, I, I, I threw out the question, but like, Can LeBron and AD support Rui Hachimora and Austin Reeves enough for the Lakers to go deep? It's funny that you would go that pejorative route against LeBron James Big Cat, because LeBron said after the game was over. He knew from the first practice with Austin Reeves that this kid was going to be special. He sees the future.

Yeah, and he, I think he, he gave a shout out to. He was either Polinka, I think it was Polinka being like, you know, he's done a great job of finding players that I can play with really well, yeah.

So, credit credit to LeBron James for crediting himself for playing with a great player such as Austin Reeves, who's also able to play with a great player such as LeBron James. Yeah, and I mean, it was, it was, uh, John Moran getting hurt is obviously the big story, because if he's hurt, the grizzlies are cooked. But, uh, our friend Kirk Goldsberry put it perfectly. It's like when you go on the road, you don't expect your role. Players like LeBron and AD to step up and score 43 points.

And they did. It's huge, so it was, it was big for the Lakers. Yeah, I mean, Austin Reeves is just, he's just good.

He's not, he's no Billy Colby, I like that name, he's from Arkansas. He probably went dummy at the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid after he was like John Moran at the strip club, except just in the Stock Bass Pond. Just throwing fives in at the Sturgeon, he's, he's awesome.

He's awesome to wise, legitimately, very good, and, uh, yeah, he's filling that Alex Caruso role very nicely. Yeah, it was fun to watch, it was fun.

I, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna totally overact and be like, Oh yeah, maybe everyone was right. The Lakers are everyone being everyone on the ESPN, The Lakers are a legit title threat. But if Austin Reeves is going to be this good, then, yeah, I guess they made every shot. And if Rui Hachimora is going to be this good, which he's not, Rui Hachimora is not. He was 11 for 14, he was awesome tonight.

He was flexing on people. 29 points. He was really, really good tonight. I don't think that he's going to be able to continue that cause.

I've watched enough Rui Hachimora basketball in my in my days that I know what to. I expect a significant regression from Rui. But yeah, I mean, if. If LeBron James and Anthony Davis and Austin Reeves are out of the court at the same time, that's a pretty good big three right there. Yeah, we also had a LeBron quote that I love for multiple reasons. But he was asked, uh, how, uh, how he feels about the Wide Open West this season, he said I think it's 16 teams.

In the post season, there's opportunity for all 16, so there's only eight in the West. But I love it doubly because LeBron is basically saying, This is the hardest playoffs of all time. So if I win it, it should count as like three times because it's wide open, cause any team, any team could win it.

Yep, any team, the Hawks.

Yeah, sure, okay, okay, they could win it all. Uh, yeah, but yeah, the actually it is wide open besides the Hawks, legitimately.

And maybe the nets, yeah, and that's I guess now with density, the heat with, with, uh, Giannis, maybe out, he culture, yeah, it could be back.

It's back, we brought it back to life. Yeah, it's wide open. What do you say, Hank?

Nothing, what, nothing what.

Nothing, this is, I'm now. I'm now just at home right now, after my son comes home from school. I'm like, What'd you do at school? He's like, nothing.

Oh, nice Balmers.

I love Balmer so much. It looked like he was going skiing. God damn it, he's the best, I'm happy.

He's not grabbing anyone's crotch right now. uh, he is a crotch grabber. But not in a like, in a sexual assault way more like, just exciting and a boys will be boys, yeah.

Like, you know that if you sit next to Steve Balmer at a Clippers game, he might just start jerking you off just out of nowhere. And you just gotta, you just gotta ride the wave with him. He's a he's a classy grouper, like Jim Nance. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

It's all class, yeah, so now the Clippers are up five, so it's probably sweating. The sons are dead.

Oh man, Westbrook, Westbrook beating Chris Paul. Cause that is how we will spin it when we have Mon again. If if the sons had Westbrook, you have to imagine that they would be instant title.

It will be, Yeah, did Westbrook and Kevin Durant on the same team? How could that lose? How could that lose?

Uh, all right. uh, there's a minute and a half left, so we'll update it. Bucks he. So, first of all, Jake, congratulations on, UH, eliminating the Bulls on Friday night. Thank you, yeah.

Sorry, no, I, I honestly like that was. It was one of those rare sports moments where whatever happened, I was just going to be like, Okay, I'm in for that. I'll be honest, I was in the same boat, yeah.

Like, if the if the Bulls, but now I'm back all in, yeah, the Bulls have won out. I've been like, oh shit, like, maybe they could give the Bucks a series and when they lost, like, all right, maybe we can get lucky and get Wembley on it somehow.

But, uh, the heat. Jimmy Butler Should we update the rankings? Jimmy Butler, I think he's number 15 in the N.BA, he had 35 and 11 tonight. Uh, he. Also that he controlled that game against the Bulls. And I mean, the only thing that this whole game is basically how injured is Giannis?

Yeah, and so he's got a back injury, as you said, he blew his back out. Which that's usually a one night type deal. So I I expect him to come back strong. Also. He's just that he's got the body type and just the, um, the freak athleticism.

Where anytime somebody like that is injured. I just assume that there'll be able to just recharge overnight and just hit themselves with a stem kit, and they come back stronger than ever. Remember when he basically tours ACL in the playoffs? He's like, Yeah, you know what, I think I'll be fine, that's what I'm saying.

Like, he is he, he is one of those guys that he's the opposite of Anthony Davis. When he gets hurt, I'm like, No, he's not really hurt. Like, even if he's not back in the game, like, Ah, no, he'll be fine, he'll play the next game. Unless I can see Bone, then I'm like, Giannis is going to get back in.

He'll be okay, yeah, it was also, even without Giannis. I feel like the Bucs can win the series because the heat shot 60 from three and basically just didn't miss. And the Bucs were kind of in it towards the end. Like it was they, they cut it to six at one point.

So I obviously they need Giannis for the rest of the playoffs. The Wiley veteran Kevin Love had a great play today. Did you see what he did at the foul line? No, he had 18 points at 18 points, played well, he can turn it off and turn it on and play off time.

He, he got cut when I think it was. Portis shoved him over on a rebound and he cut his elbow. And then he goes up to the foul line and he hits his free throws. Before telling the reps that he's bleeding, and then right afterwards, he points to the reps, he's like, Hey, I'm bleeding right now. So that they can take it, they get a free timeout out of the situation. Oh, that's great.

That's a veteran move, right? That is a veteran move. Shout out Kevin. Love all right. Anything else from the Fur and Nuggets Timberwolves we will talk about on Wednesday.

Yeah, so you're, you're in a pickle. Well, I am, cause it's my, it's my nuggets against my. Timberwolves guaranteed a team in the second round.

Yeah, Elite Eight, but it's not what they call it. No, we can call it the Elite Eight. The Western Conference semifinals. Yeah, I mean, when you have 16 teams, we're in the sweet 16 right now. All 16 of these teams should be very, very happy with where they're at.

Any one of them could win the N.B.A. finals. So to be in the Elite Eight, have one of my big futures in the Elite Eight. I'm very happy with myself. So the other trivia I had was about the Nuggets, so New York Times fake news. But they did write an article, basically being like, I think they said that it was the Nugget, the Nuggets. Like 42nd or something, a playoff appearance of that 38th.

Yeah, 38th, but that's that was counting ABA as well, which we don't count, we don't, we don't acknowledge that. It is their 28th, uh, playoff appearance without getting winning a finals, and then there have been to a final either.

Uh, who are the three teams ahead of them that have made the playoffs consistently, but never, never won a final, never won a fight? In basketball? Or Kings, Kings, there's one of them. Sons, Yes, Sons lead, with 32 sons have played in the finals, though.

Haven't? No, no, not win a final? Yeah, no, they haven't. They're not on this list in terms of playoff Hawks.

It's like total playoff appearances without winning a final. Got it Rockets? No, no. Hakeem is missing an obvious Knicks.

The Knicks have won a title, the Jazz Jazz have 31 playoff appearance. So I did look it up for all sports, you guys could probably guess the, uh, the NFL ones, the top ones, browns.

Browns are two with 29 playoff appearances. No Superbowls. Uh, dolphins, yeah, they've won. The first one is easy, first one should be easy.

Lions No, no cause they haven't made the playoffs enough. Vikings 31 No Superbowls.

Uh, yeah, it's Vikings, Browns, Titans, Bills, Chargers, Lions are all the way down. Cause you've only made it 17 times, but if you count the ABA stats, which we don't, right?

Then the Nuggets are number one all time across all sports. Yes, yes, yes, and then in the in hockey, it was like Sabers, Canucks, sharks.

And then I looked up Brew, Uh, brewers were number one. They own eight playoff appearances with no world series. That's really not that many playoff appearance. Well, it's because every franchise has won a world series. Because baseball has been around for so fucking long. That, like everyone, has made at least one one. Like in 1902, the Akron groomsmen, right?

Exactly, but yeah, nuggets are a underrated, painful franchise. Yeah, so we'll see your nuggets first. The Timberwolves, listen, I win.

Either way, this is a free roll for me. You, the lady with the LeBron jersey, all three. So I ironically, uh, the maybe the worst thing for me would be if the Timberwolves won the series, yes.

Because then they probably go on to lose in the next round. Yes, and then I'm I can't hedge out anything, and I lose all my nuggets money too. And yeah, everyone's like, I thought you were a Nuggets guy. And then other people were like, I thought you were a Timberwolves guy, but you were a Nuggets guy before your Timberwolves.

That's true, I was, I was a Nuggets guy two years ago, two and a half years ago.

I've been doing nothing for you back when the Nugs were mid. So are the Sun's dead? Is this like saving private? Ryan? We should watch, we'll just watch the last 28 seconds.

The, Uh, man, the Sun's losing this in the in the first round again. It's only one game, very tough though, and Playoff P will not be participating in the first one. Memes has to do the meme where he sends it the bat signal for AJ titties.

Yeah, yeah, get that. No, no, that's, that's memes, that's his memes.

Memes got to be pumped up for Islanders, all right? 28 seconds left, one a one. oh nine, one away.

Uh, Clippers, who has a ball? Clippers? Look at Stan Van. Oh, it's Van Gundy season, big time.

Oh, we're getting everywhere. You think that Jeff and Stan van Gundy are the two brothers that look the least amount of like of any prominent brothers.

Because they do not look like they're related. Good question Well, I don't want to say it, what say it?

Howie Long Jr. does not look like Chris or Kyle at all. Okay, yeah, I feel bad about that, but it is true.

He's a great guy and he's actually going to be in the NFL longer than them because he's a scout for the Raiders. Oh my god, he's so bad, he's going to. He's going to miss at least one of these. Give me the ball coach.

He was just, he was like, This is my game, I'm taking over. It's Russell Westbrook time. Russell Westbrook, Yeah.

Don't give it a quiet. No, it's, yeah, it's me. You also should not wear the number zero if you're, objectively speaking, the worst player on your team, yeah.

Yeah, but he, he. Also. The problem with Westbrook is he doesn't triple double. His body looks just as good as it was like 10 years ago. Bombers freaking out, you know what I mean?

Yeah, like, if he got a little fatter, I feel like people would be a lot nicer to him. I've been like, Ah, you know, athletes, you know they, they lose, they get over 30. But like even his, like jumping and everything, he hasn't lost a step, right, exactly.

Maybe he's just gotten worse, he's gotten faster. It's very hard to watch because you're like, Wait, he should be the same guy, you can get more shots off so he misses more shots.

All right, here's the second free throw. Oh, here we go, now only one ball. Who takes the last shot?

Devin Booker or Katie Katie? Time you think, so, yeah, but it's Booker's team.

Look at you emotional. They don't need a three depends because it advances 17.7 down three. No, yeah.

You might be right, Jake. All right, I'll do, I'll do the Who's back. I love being that guy who just says they don't need a three every time. You can say, with like three seconds left, they don't do that.

Yeah, in the N.BA at least, what do you guys think is the actual benchmark? Like seven seconds, I would say 10 10..

I would say it's different in college and NBA because you can advance. yeah, uh, NBA, I'd say six college. I feel like you need it with like eight. But you can always sound super smart around your friends and just be like they actually don't need a three.

You don't go right to the hoop. Yeah, it could be a four point game with like five seconds left. They don't need three, yeah.

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No chance Phoenix has one time out. What are you running here, coach? Oh, they're going to have to use their time out. they did use their time out.

All right, let's do Who's back? and then we'll, we'll update when we watch it. When we were at the final four, me and PFT were sitting in the same row as Jeff Van Gundy, or, yeah, Jeff Van Gundy. Fat or skinny skinny. With his dad and his son and Rico Bosco, our coworker kept trying to get his attention.

And we just kept yelling at him at the end of the game. What are you running here, coach, coach? He couldn't even hear him, but he just kept on saying that to him.

He kept going, coach, coach, we're running, that's also a coach. You found her?

We found her. That's also like the final four is, if you yell coach at the final four, it's like it's like yelling dad or mom at a like a playground. Like everyone is a coach everyone, so even the people that aren't coaches, like all the coaches, go to the final four.

Yeah, coach, what are you running? Jeff did not respond to Rico. No, what do you think he would have run?

The San Diego State play that one, yeah, probably. That just drive to the baseline, yeah, almost go out of bounds. No, he hated that play.

Rico hated that play, even after it went in. He was like, Ah, the process is bad, too. Uh, too early to run. Winner Ghost Blob.

Uh, my, who's Bach? is Arnold Schwarzenegger? Oh, here we go. Oh no, there's a replay. Yeah, why is Arnold back?

Arnold was doing, he did a viral video where he is like, Uh, there's a pothole in his neighborhood that he said all his neighbors were complaining about. And so we did this video where he went out and filled the pothole, uh? And then it turned out that the pothole was there for a reason. Cause they needed to do construction so that the town had to go back and undo the filled pothole that he like.

Did this whole PR booker? Oh, Westbrook, Westbrook. I take back everything. I said, Wow, game winning play.

Fuck. He blocked it and got it off of Booker and they get the ball. That is a tough look for me. No timeouts for the Clippers.

That was a great play by Westbrook. Damn, that's why you have him type of plays he's been in these positions. Oh, Booker's an idiot.

That was if it preview for Ryan Whitney, Ryan Whitney, if he was watching this game with us. Devin Booker just completely gave up on it to try to look for the foul. Yeah, if he had kept his eyes on the ball, he would have been able to catch that and put it in. That's a good look for those of us that rock balls beachwear in the summertime, too, considering what Russell Westbrook word of the game.

Yeah, that's true. Okay, uh, so he filled in a pothole, he filled in a pothole, uh. But it was actually a trench that had been dug for utility work. So they have to go and basically undo the work he tried to do, yeah.

But he was just trying to be a good neighbor, right? Yeah, and film it and post on the internet. Yeah, it's going to be, uh, he wasn't doing it for Cloud.

He was just letting everyone know like Schwarzenegger doesn't need cloud should be filled. He's the terminator. Yeah, uh, the mother who's back was matched. Matt Fitzpatrick Oh, yes.

One, Uh, what was it, Jake? The RBC Heritage? The plaid jacket beat Speed in a playoff playoff. Uh, Speed had a chance to win with the putt barely.

Oh yeah, I guess we talked about it. With chicklets coming up. Clippers win game one. Sons are dead.

Wow, put a fork in them. I think the over-under was, uh, what did he put? 225 by the way, and they just dumped for no reason.

Westbrook was just pointing at his nipple. I don't think that was his heart, that was like his left peck, his peck, Chris Paul.

Oh, yes, that was a weird place to point at your heart. There looks to be some confusion on the court right now. Yeah, everyone is just kind of standing around and Chris Paul's like, Don't worry, guys.

I've been here. Technically, I lose playoff games, like it's my job. Oh, is it technical for hanging on the rim? maybe?

Oh, that would be great for the over-under 225.

If they call it technical here, that would be fucking hilarious.

Yeah, sons are dead, sons are dead. Oh, Westbrook's yelling at the crowd that that feels like something Westbrook might want to take back, because, well, no, you know what?

Three for 19 might be sustainable, and and the defensive winning play, you could do that every game shooting 15, yeah.

If it dips below 10, then I'd say that you can't win with that. Yeah, oh, they're going to call this dunk back. Yeah, maybe for hanging on the rim.

They can't take the dunk away. No, they can't take the dunk away. I was just wondering, what? Why they were replaying Westbrook? All right, so Arnold back?

That's Arnold back, Fitzpatrick back, Spieth almost back, playing really well. I think he's going to win a major, yeah.

I kind of agree, Spieth has been awesome recently. He just has to get rid of those shots where you the camera cuts to him. And he's just like hitting out of a tree. If he just eliminates all those real bad fuck ups, yeah.

The true experience? Yeah, yeah, he that that pot was tough, yeah.

I don't think you can get closer to going in and you can tell. When you looked at it, he was like, God, damn it, what the hell happened here? The only thing I would say with that, obviously you want to win the tournament. But the prize is just a jacket, and you've you already have one, you know, do you really need another one? He's already got the plaid jacket.

Yeah, oh yeah, who cares? The plaid jacket is a is a sick gift, though, yeah.

I like it a lot, all right. Who's your? who's back? Uh, my, who's back is Netflix? Netflix is back.

So Love is Blind was supposed to be on tonight. They're doing the reunion show. Do you guys watch Love is Blind? I watched the first season.

I have not watched this season, the second, second season was awesome, this season, I have not watched that much of. But I do know that people were freaking out about it because Netflix was trying to broadcast it live, they're getting into live television now on Netflix.

They invented this new thing where they can play a show and then everybody watches it at the same time, which is kind of a. It's a. It's a different way to think about TV. But they're not doing it live, they're not doing it live, they were trying to broadcast it live, so bullshit, but Netflix, so it's not live. But Netflix had this idea to record a TV show and then put it out so that people watch it all at the same time, huh?

They should think about doing shows that are all online, that people could just watch whenever they wanted. Yeah, and maybe I was thinking about, cause I was looking through all the apps I watched. Like, we should, they should figure out a way like Bundle, like Netflix and like HBO, and I'll just pay one price. Yeah, no.

And even maybe get some of the live sports on there. And Warner brothers, Warner brothers, uh, bundle it all together and I'll just pay one like monthly bill to another company and that would work. They could have a box, they could partner with Roku, maybe, so you have a box that connects with your television that you can use to just control it.

That will never work, though. That's a stupid idea. Uh, my other who's back is Blink 182, cause Blink 182 played their first show. And I don't. I don't know how many years. As a trio Mark Tom Travis they played at Coachella, which I'm still not a hundred percent sure what Coachella is.

All the cool kids, it's a vibe, Coachella is literally vibes. And, uh, it fucking rocked. They were really good, they looked like they cared.

Are they doing Lala? I don't know what they're doing, but they rock and I'm so I'm. I'm definitely going to go see them when they play here in New York, cause Blink 182 is one of those bands.

I think the band that most like defines people in our, I mean, big cats age group, like our childhood. Blink 182 was, they were bigger than big, so it's good to see them back and playing as a trio guy. I love Blink 182. Uh, I did, like, Everclear a little more, or yes.

Everclear was good. Yeah, I was a big, simple plan guy and good Charlotte.

And some 41.

Yeah, I mean, without Blink 182, though, simple plan, Good Charlotte, probably don't exist Blink 182. Yeah, that's fair.

They are, I mean, that everyone can, like, if you show a picture of the nurse like, you're like, Oh, that's Blink 182, one of the best albums ever. Janine, and it's funny.

And their songs stand the test of time way better. They're great singalong songs. It's funny watching them play. Because Travis Barker is probably the best drummer in the world, at least like the best songwriting drummer in the world. And he's playing with Tom, who is like, when he doesn't care, he's one of the worst guitar players in the world.

And if you're Travis, you gotta you have to hate that experience. But they were locked in, they were locked in, it was awesome. Um, all right, I got two who's backs?

My first who's back is Chase Elliott. Chase Elliott is back, uh. Geico 500 Talladega Speedway Fox, 3 p.m. This Sunday. He is back, it's his second race back and I'm going to bet on him. And I'm going to boost it for Barstool Sportsbook.

So check out all of our socials, we'll have it boosted. 75th anniversary of NASCAR. Also, there's a new street race in Chicago. July 2nd, 5 30 p.m. Uh, that's going to be sick, but yeah, tune in this Sunday, three o'clock.

Chase Elliott is back, he is fully back. I am going to bet on him to win Chase.

Elliott is all the way back, uh, my other who's back? We have to have a serious talk with the AWs. So, yes, take a seat, yeah.

So, uh, let's have a serious talk. So everyone has been listening to the show for a very long time, they know, uh, there was a day and age when I was maybe year two ish. Uh. We thought it'd be funny to have everyone say Hey, suck my dick as the greeting for Hey, I know you, you listen to my take, suck my dick.

It kind of spiraled because we realized people were just yelling it. Uh, in the real world. Suck my dick. Just yelling it out of car windows. It got weird. Uh. We asked people to stop doing it, everyone was cool about it, We stopped doing it.

We don't say that anymore, that's what we say, instead, we don't say that anymore. So we have a new thing that has maybe kind of dipped into, Hey, this is real world.

Uh, we have to as a podcast and AWS and this, I'll say it right now. Uh, what is it year? is it the seventh eight?

We're in year eight, so eight TAKIEs are coming up and we will take away AWS chance for an eight. PETE Uh, we have to stop saying to Max Homa on the golf course that he's a pervert. Because it's getting a little weird. I was watching some of the RBC. It's just getting a little we, we've gone too far.

So this is our serious talk, and I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to go even further. And say, if you see someone saying it, permission to shame that person, take a picture and send it to us. Like, don't say it, do not say it. And this is actually serious. So we want Max to do well.

We don't need everyone yelling them pervert and shit like that. We'll give you alternate things to say yeah, instead of saying pervert. Say either that's a spicy meatball or shot. Or since he's Italian mama, Yeah, no.

Or how about how about this? We should just do this to see if we can maybe maybe just get him going in the right direction. How about let's go Max, that's a good one.

Like, let's go Max Max. Listen, if you say, let's go Max. Max will know that you're talking about part of my team. He will know it, so he will, he'll know it, he'll give you a little like tip of the cap.

Let's go Max. That's what we gotta be saying, no more pervert. That is officially canceled. Uh, we've canceled ourselves.

We got to realize we do this to ourselves a lot, so it's on us. It's not your fault. unless you keep doing it, then it is your fault.

So all, uh, previous pervert comments are completely pardoned from from from AWL prison. So if you'd said it last year, you said it last week, you are clean, you did nothing wrong, anything, that any pervert that is said from this date forward, you're in jail.

Yeah, just what about just yelling homosexual? No, no, no, let's not do that. Wanted to be silent.

No, say, let's go Max, are you listening? What about just Mama Mia? Yeah, that plays after he, after he spanks a drive.

Also, just, yeah, it should be, let's go Max. When you see, I think it's more like, when people are, it's. It's when he's like, walking up to try to hit him a ball out of the fucking sand. And people are like, Hey, what's up, perfect?

We got to stop that people are looking. It's weird, it's Father tribe not hitting in the sand.

Okay, Hank, you're really not helping, I'm joking, I'm joking serious conversation.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. So no more perverts. Uh, actually, you know what?

Here's a perfect way to do it. If you see Hank in public, call him a pervert, great, so he is the he is the number at the end there, too, yeah.

No, but seriously, we are asking everyone. Uh, we love Max, we love having him come on the show, we love like the relationship we built. So please self-police this. No more perverts to Max.

Just a simple Let's go Max, let's get him winning when he. when he starts winning it, you know what? If Max wins, is he? Is he playing next weekend? I'm not sure if he wins in the next two months. Uh, and he hears zero perverts, he will, uh, donate a thousand dollars to a random awl and I'll match.

I will also match, so there you go, double, so three people will get a thousand dollars. I believe he is playing in the Zurich classic of New Orleans.

Okay, if he gets one, if he gets, don't say if he gets one single pervert, then that deal is completely off. So that is a real deal. If he wins any tournament the rest of this summer and he hears no perverts, he will tell us. I will give a thousand to a random listener, PFT will give a thousand to a random listener.

Max will give a thousand to a random listener. That's pretty fun. All you have to do is not say the word pervert. So police each other. And again, we do accept that this is ultimately on us because we gave him the award last year, but not going forward, not going forward.

Now it's on you everyone, and you are the best listeners in the entire world. It is. It is funny that we have the ability to like these things happen because we know everyone's just passionate. Uh, but no more pervert or lottery balls.

Uh, yeah, we'll work on that. Let's let's try to hank. Couldn't you just get the lottery ball? I had to try, and let's stop out the perverts, then we can go to the lottery ball.

Okay, is that fair? All right? Uh, I figured I'd try since we were on the topic, but yeah, no, well, you weren't listening for half of it.

No, I just tried to make a joke, you didn't, we were trying to. We. We rarely sit down with listeners and being like, Hey, we got to talk, we found this bong in your room. Hey we, we got to talk. We heard you just been saying pervert all the time.

Yeah, now I feel like we have to be the cool parents right after we had this heavy conversation. I'll buy a pizza for an awl. Sorry that we had to, Sorry we had to have this talk, big cat.

You select one person who replies I'll select We'll send you a pizza. Sorry, sorry, kids.

You know, I hate to get real like that, to to, to random aws. I'm not going to go to the ball game, but I'll send you to a ball game. You know, sport is grab your, grab your mitt. Oh, the New Orleans is actually a team event, it's Max Homo paired with Colin Morikawa, and they're calling themselves Team Homokawa.

Okay, those are both of our guys, yeah, team home. So we want a clean weekend from the AWS and then we build on that and then we build on it.

Yeah, let's just take it one, one game at a time. Yeah, it's not easy to change, okay?

Billy, My who's back? is also a day at the ball game. they at the ballpark. Yeah, this takes stinks. Billy No, you know how many games have you been to this year?

How many games have you gone to in the stadium? Okay, you're talking about baseball? Yes, yes.

I actually, I actually agree with Billy's take. What is the take? I fucking hate the pitch clock. I hate the pitch clock. Because I get down there, you know, you know, I take the subway to Yankee Stadium, I sit down there. And, you know, then all of a sudden I was in the bleachers.

Uh, I sit down there and guess what, like, I'm watching the game. I'm trying to chit chat, socialize, like how I usually do, and you're not watching the game. No, he's just chit chatting.

It's okay. The whole point is that, uh, like, I feel like I'm rushed at a table at a restaurant that's trying to flip table. Yeah, like, get out of here. So I, I agree with this.

Take for games that you attend in person on TV. It's a million times. Hold on, I totally understand.

But his okay, when I go to the ballpark and I watch a daytime baseball game, I want that time to never stop. Okay, factor fiction, take me out to the ball game.

It's it doesn't say I don't care if I never get back. Yes, yes, it does. I want to be able to be unaccounted for for the whole day, yes.

I want no one to know where I am. Billy, You can. Here's the only thing that I don't understand about this. Take, I get, I get it, you're, you're not a seam head.

You don't, you go to the game to socialize, not watch the game. I like to watch the game. But the thing is, there's the game is still the exact same amount of game, right? But there's more time spent in between. I want, I want there to be more fuck around time, so if I get food, I don't miss anything.

Like, two minutes between games. How many food stops are you going for? I like to walk around the stadium, see, this is the part that I don't understand. Because you could, like, you could go to the stadium an hour early. There's batting practice for two hours.

You could also go to a bar after the game and hang out, right? But you could go to, you know, you could go to the ballpark for five hours still, if you wanted to.

Your argument of like, I like to not get there on time, it does not help you with this. And also, I like to just walk around the stadium, watch the games from different places and eat different. Like, I want to eat a hot dog and a steak sandwich. And there's like a bunch of vendors I like to hit every time.

You should go for batting practice, okay, that is true, but like you.

It steals Zach Hample's shine. What you want is literally what you could do with batting practice, where you just show up, hang out, watch some dingers, catch a dinger. I just think that a little bit of the experience has been has been taken away. I'll downgrade my initial reaction of It's a terrible take because you're right. I have not been to a game, so I have to judge it myself because I do, I do agree.

There is a part of like a baseball game that when you're at, you don't have to be locked in the same way that you're locked into. Like a basketball game or a hockey game. But the pitch clock is awesome, it's like a pass, I bet it's amazing. On TV, it's, yeah.

I know it's amazing on TV. There should just be a rule where if you're going to a game, then they take away the pitch clock. But like, you know, like, let's say you're with somebody else, and you know they don't know the rules. Why do you have to be so weird all the time?

Let's say you're with. It's like the whole point of baseball game is a perfect date, cause there's so much time in between to explain what happened. If there's someone who doesn't know the game, I feel like you don't know all the rules to baseball.

I do know all the rules, all of them. Yeah, how do you? What's a balk? It's when he gets caught looking at the wrong time.

What? No, you're just talking about your girlfriend getting mad at you. That was an easy one, that was an easy one. No. When the pitcher gets caught, like he goes to throw, but he, he does it too much and then.

But he does it too much. What degree angle? What's explain the infield fly rule?

What? yeah, infield fly rule, don't you don't know seam, all right?

Okay, I don't know Seam that well, but it still like it robs a good amount of the game. Okay, I think I think the best take to make is just that when you go to a, especially a daytime baseball game.

Yes, you like to feel like time stands still and you're just hanging out in the sun, drinking beer for three or four hours. I think this might be. That's very fun to do. Just day games, too, because like a night game, it, you know, like there actually was nothing worse than you go to a night game and it's like 11 o'clock.

You're like, Fuck, I want to go home, uh, like on a Tuesday night game, but yeah, you're, you're right. I'm going to wait until I go to a game in person and I'll report back, so I'm downgrading.

The take is not terrible anymore, I think it's a solid B take, which is on the on the billy curve. That's an A plus. It's a past time.

It's like a leisurely activity like, and plus I don't, so everyone's going to keep going to Yankee Stadium. But like, what if it's like a, uh, like Houston, where you have to like drive and like you have to spend? Like some people? Like, take an hour and a half traveling there for only two hours, you can just go earlier. I know, okay.

But but then, at the same time, when you go earlier, there's not that much action. I think with this whole thing, Billy has stumbled upon a partially very correct take. In my opinion, part of it's incorrect. But I think the the crux of your argument is like, you wish that you had more time to get drunk. Which I'm saying, you could just go to the. You go to batting practice, or you go to a bar after you left the game feeling too sober.

No, no, it was more that it just felt really quick, right? How long was it? It was? Uh, I think it was two hours.

That'd be so funny. If it was like it was three and three, three hours and 45 minutes, This was like it was two hours and like, seven minutes. I think they're going to get rid of the pitch clouds that are adjusted for the playoffs, right? I think that kind of rules.

Can we, you know what? I'm also just Yankee games, I'm just I'm just judging because I watch all the games and it's so awesome. Just being like it's action all the time. Yeah, whereas it used to be. You just like zone out, you just one game, one game a year, like maybe a couple, like Saturday Day games. Just like Yankees. Red Sox, Sunday night baseball will still go five hours.

The turn back the clock night, where you just don't have a good clock. Yeah, yeah, they got to get rid of it for the playoffs. Oh, you know what?

But it is, it's a million times better to watch baseball on TV. Between that and those thick-ass, juicy bases, I'm all in baby, by the way, you know why? Also, it was going by so fast that no one realized that Jermaine German Domingo German was having a no hitter. And then Jermon, Jermon, Jay. Can we get a little fact checking?

Germany Hermann, Hermann Okay, well, that G shouldn't be there.

But then halfway through, everyone was like, Oh shit, he's on the way to a no hitter. But since it was going so fast, no one was able to, like, recognize that and like, not say anything. Then, like, seven people said, like, Oh my god, no hitter, and then, of course, there was a hit, three hits, like right after, everyone was zero hitter, you mean?

I like to bring a book and keep track of all the stats. Uh, player by player, that can help with that. Sometimes. What? you? oh, you score a score, yeah, scorekeep.

Hank's never done that, but it is, I actually do. I wish I were one of those guys I always see. I used to score in high school, or like, you know, whenever I wasn't, if I wasn't, obviously as a pitcher, so I was like, on the other games. Give me the book.

I, I, I've changed my opinion. I think I have to watch a game in person to let you know. Because there is some part of day games where, like, you do want to just hang out. Uh, but yeah, the TV part is just so much better. I just feel that like, you know how? Whenever there's a change, there's like one person that gets overlooked, overlooked in the change, and I was, I feel a little overlooked.

Billy was overlooked, not enough time for him to consult you. They should, I mean, why don't you think of Billy who wants to get drunk? We actually should have sent Billy down to a spring training game to see how this the rule changes would would impact.

Like it, just a young, drunk fan. Yeah, it would have been funny if Rob Manford had Billy in a lab being like, Wait, his Bac is only 0.15. This is something's off, No? But even the Bleachers weren't as rowdy.

That was another thing that's sad, just like the atmosphere kind of changed in the ballpark. You know, I'm a hundred percent, I'm not a big seam head.

Like, I like I watch games, I watch playoffs, but like, I love baseball because I love going to the stadium being like a fan. Like, like, not a casual, but like, I still like the team. We need to, we need to de-stigmatize the word casual. It's fine to be a baseball casual a hundred percent.

It's fine to be a casual. I'd say like, 90 of baseball fans are casual yes, which is okay, yes.

Hockey, hockey. No, it could be me. No, you're a Diehard hank. No, but I'm saying in theory, though, in general for other people.

Yeah, no, I agree. Being casual is just lame, because it's it's always those same guy online who just only cares about one thing. Like UFC fan who only watches UFC will call you a casual. It's like, Yeah, dude, I like other sports. Casuals are. casuals are what make the sports world go round.

Fill the seats. But yeah, Billy, you did get overlooked, I'm sorry. But like, economically, that's going to impact sales and everything. Well, that's why the brewers extended their beer sales.

But even food, so like, for example, I, like, felt like I couldn't be up. So they should legalize marijuana at the ballpark. Get people hungrier, No, but they'll be thinking they're missing the game.

Like, I, like, didn't go up in. My whole usual routine was thrown off because I didn't want to miss as much of the game. Got it? I think there's a there's a compromise to be found here. One, I think you're onto something that daytime baseball games should have. You want to be there longer.

And two, you can also go a little bit earlier and see batting practice, which is fun, and go to the bar after. Yeah, also, or maybe have you just lost your ability to drink fast? But oh, no, this might be a personal situation. Because me, I know that if I go to Yankee game in the daytime, I know because I follow sports.

I know there's a pitch clock, I'm getting my work in fast. Billy, I'm hammering lines. No, but you not. If you're built like me, like I get, I get right back. This is honestly more about, let's say, you go to a game like you go to the game.

I think it's better less time like, like, well, I guess for kids like, if I'm taking my kid, I'm, that's going to be awesome. But let's say it's the other way around. Where you always went like, you're, you're taking your dad and you don't see him that much. And then all the times, like, Rob, it's like you could go to a bar after with your dad.

Well, Billy, just curious, this has nothing to do with your take. What? What inning did you show up in? Oh no, I got there in the first inning? Oh, you did.

Yeah, okay, that would have also been funny if Billy was like, I got there in the fourth, No, but I used to. I used to love going like to the bars around Yankee Stadium. And then just waiting for the ticket prices to drop, like super low. And like, get sick tickets with your buddy and then go in, yeah.

With game time, you can always get those low prices, though it's important to remember that, right? Even with game time. yeah, even with game time.

Like snagging a Legends ticket. What day was it Saturday? Yeah, that was a good game.

It was a great game, Rizzo went off. LemAhieu Judge sick. That's my guy all the best, yeah.

Go ahead, Jake.

By the way, keeping score with pencil great, just very underrated thing to do. Oh, you don't use a pen or pen.

Yeah, I mean, sometimes there's like a late the official scorer can change it from, like, I don't know anyways. Uh, mine's kind of similar to Billy. Um, my who's back is rules being rules? Cody Bellinger received a standing ovation. Uh, returning to the Dodgers, returning to L.A. and he got called for a pitch clock violation.

He did, he was like acknowledging the crowd that were all on their feet, not in the box, not in the box, sorry.

Rules are rules, rules are rules, rules are rules. Yeah, but I think that's one where it should be a little gray area.

Yeah, but umpires don't have a gray area. No, they don't, they don't, they're balls and strikes.

There's a thin blue line rules are rules. No jump balls in baseball. I I can't believe that. We didn't mention the biggest baseball story of the weekend, the uh, the possum that's living in the Oh, the Athletics press box.

The A's TV away booth, Yeah, the Mets crew was not there. Respect the biz, that's that press box belongs to the possum.

There's a possum that's been dug into this press box, and apparently the entire room just smells like shit and piss from the possum. So they make them broadcast the game from a different room, because that room, that's the possums now. And you can't, you can't kick that thing out. I'm sure there's some qualified, like, uh, animal control specialists in Oakland that if you gave them a call, they'd probably be able to retrieve the possum and get them out. But for whatever reason, they're just kind of saying, Okay, this possum lives here now, yeah.

Which I respect, I do, too. I think if the A's they beat the Mets tonight, right? uh, no, the Mets won. Oh, but no, Frank said. That didn't count.

Should have lost two out of three. Yeah, so the so, the Athletics basically beat the Mets two out of three games this series. If it's working, you got to. It's the rally possum.

Yeah, yeah, don't you dare touch that possum? A's are just, Oh, it is a disaster. Uh, okay.

Good, who's backs, everyone? Let's do some hockey playoff preview with Ryan Whitney and Merles. Uh, before we do that, Piotr, you got a quick word from one of our sponsors.

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Okay, playoff hockey time. We've got our good friend Ryan Whitney in person in studio, and he brought a special guest. It is Merles EBR.

Yeah, EBR everybody rides from Spittin Chicklets as well. Let me just say this right off the top, Merles one of the best gamblers I know, and the Spittin Chicklets. Their YouTube has added programming for the playoffs.

So Merles and Colby Armstrong, who played in the league as well, who was on the broadcast for the FDNY NYPD game. They're doing everyday recap and set you up for bets every single night, right? Correct on the Spittin chicklets YouTube. It's going to be awesome. Basically, Witt was like, How can I figure out to have someone do my job for me?

No, you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong. I can keep working twice a week and just golf, nope.

I actually, if you really want to know the truth, I said, I just want to have my friends around. So how do I figure this out? I go. Merles master the art of gambling, and by the way, you say, he's the greatest gambler. He gives out winners at an amazing rate.

He still always loses. Yeah, somehow he's giving out winners, and then he's like, I lost again, so I'm like, why don't you just take only the picks you give out? No, he just live bets. Jordan Spieth.

Because my friends like you, give me Jordan Spieth today, so that's how I lose. He should have won, that was a good bet, that was a good bet.

Two putts to win, two putts to win. One touched like 300 degrees of the ground and flipped out. But Merles is the best because he lives half the time, half the year in Sweden. And so he has all kinds of weird European hockey bets. That, like, I'll wake up at seven in the morning and he's just screaming into a microphone. We got the fucking Russian like second league over five and a half calls.

I'm like, all right, I'm in.

He texted me, he's like, Wait, I have a tip about the second league in Slovakia. I'm like, is it on the barstool sportsbook? He's like, Yes, I don't know how we have them all.

He's like, No, we do. He's like, they're plus 135, but there's 14 guys out from the other team with food poisoning. And I hammered it. It was like they won, like 10, nothing.

I was like, Merles, oh, genius, but yeah, Merles is the best. So let's do some playoffs, yes.

Preview It is the best time of year. I have a question for Merles before we get into playoff preview. Because I always hear people from Scandinavia talk about the crazy different types of nicotine that they have up there and how it's superior to American nicotine. Can you walk me through that and tell me what we should be looking for? Well, I'm not into that thing, but I can tell you my wife was into it big time.

The girls do it, the girls do it in the north, they take the snooze and they put it in there. And Finland isn't a Scandinavian country. Little known fact.

But these guys are the craziest with that. No, that's a little known fact. Well, Finland doesn't exist. Remember, is it fake?

Yeah, there's a big conspiracy out there that it's just like a body of water owned by Japanese fishing rights. I believe Scandinavia is Denmark, Norway and Sweden only. Okay, okay, but these Finnish guys, they put so much snooze up their lip, these guys I played hockey with that, they couldn't stuff it up there, sorry about that.

Stuff it up there, they get them a little machine and they shoot it up like a syringe. By the end, the chew is like, way up here. Oh, that's their main line and dip.

That's awesome, yeah, well, Eric Carlson, first defenseman since Brian Leach in like 92, got to get 100 points this year on San Jose. He just packs lips the entire game, I love that.

I'm like, that's kind of a baller move, but yeah, I have one Zin 6, and I'm just like, whoa, yeah, you don't need a mouthpiece. if you pack enough zin up there, right? Have your entire mouth filled with pillows.

Yeah, yeah, all right, let's do it, I don't know. Let's start with the East, okay?

Let's start at the top. Hank, did you want to ask the question that you've been dying to ask about the Bruins? Because I know you're tuned in? You had, like, a third line question, right? We'll save that for the end.

Oh, okay, oh okay, as he hits Google. So the Bruins are statistically now, obviously they had ties back in the day, but most wins in a NHL season, regular season, they look incredible.

They are the one seed they're playing. The Panthers. Tell us. Because it's dumb to just sit here and be like, Oh yeah, they're going to win it all. Tell us if they don't win it all, why?

What's their one weakness? Because I feel like everything I've read, heard, they don't have one, They really don't. It's crazy and maybe you could have said, like, depth and this is a huge reach.

And then at the deadline, they went out and made these unreal moves, like they were done making trades. They had done exactly what they needed to. They got Orlov from Washington. PFT knows how good he is.

Great player, Hathaway from Washington, a great fourth line like Boston style player. And then all of a sudden, like last minute, they get Tyler Bertuzzi. Who when he's on, and he has been since he came to Boston, can be like a point per game guy. He's playing like third line. It's just they really have no weaknesses.

And now, all of a sudden, with the way playoffs are and the grind it is, there's always injuries. They actually have like enough to just withstand, like three or four guys going down. Obviously not marshawn or pasta, but it's a crazy team. Biz made a good point, I think.

The only way that they don't make it to the Cup final, no, I should say, he said. The only way they lose the first round. But I'll say the only way they don't make it really far is if their goaltending just imploded. But at the same time, they have all mark. I don't know the last time a goalie led the league in goals, against and save percentage. I wish that I had that down.

Maybe it's never happened. He did that. But they have Jeremy Swayman, who I think was third in goals against, and like, fifth and save percentage. So it is. It is the best UM regular season team of all time. You did bring up back in the day? I think the other team was the 77 Canadians. There were ties and there were also less games, I believe.

So if you want to talk about maybe. And they won the Cup and I think the Red Wings too, had a year 96, yeah, where they had. Like, I think there was like seven ties. So you have to figure maybe like three of them, four of them become overtime wins.

Also, um, the Lightning in 2019, who ended up getting swept in the first round, one of the biggest shockers the NHL has ever seen. So that's the one thing on Bruins fans mind is like, you could be this good and it's just a different ball game. Presidents, Uh, you know, Cup trophy like that, that that is the curse. Not since 2013 and the Blackhawks won the Cup. Can we say that if the Bruins don't win the Stanley Cup? This is the biggest disappointment in the post season of all time with what they did.

Yeah, yeah, I mean, when you set the league record for points, it's a disappointment. You have to do it. That is what sucks.

And I think that's why Bruins fans have so much anxiety. It's like, none of this matters. Not only does it not matter. If we don't win the Cup. We're kind of like a joke a little bit. Yeah, now if they go to Game seven of the Cup and something happens, it is what it is, but it's hockey.

But I I think that they are without a doubt. It's win or a complete failure. Hank's been saying this entire season, like the regular season, doesn't matter in hockey. Well, not because he doesn't care about the regular season. Well, his third line, the guy in the third line he knows about once he goes on Google. He had a bad game that night, yeah.

Is there a difference in in playoff speed in hockey? Cause we always hear about it in like NFL, NBA, to a certain extent? Sometimes for guys just like, Flip the switch, is it faster? It's my my story on that. And chicklets listeners, I apologize.

I've said it a hundred times, but um, we were on the Penguins. Uh, Crosby's rookie year, which was my rookie year. Morales was Crosby's first roommate. By the way. That's how he's basically, like, still in the game, somewhat. Is that good? No, everyone, yeah.

Everyone on the in the chicklets, uh organization, you just have to look up like, did they get drafted by the Penguins in the early 2000s?

It's the Penguins J.V. players. Yeah, yeah. When I met Colby last night, I was like, Where do I? where have I heard his name? and I googled him.

I was like, Oh, yeah, he was drafted by the Penguins, but um, so we had a horrible team. I believe we finished second to last. Uh, our rookie year, Crosby's rookie year, I should say, and we had the greatest single season turnaround 47 point improvement the next year. Ironically enough, it was beaten by the Devils.

The last game of the year, they they broke it. They had a 49 point improvement from last year to this year. But in terms of the speed difference we played Ottawa, it was. They were four, we were five in the East back when they did one through eight.

Ottawa was a great team that year, they ended up going to the Cup final, but um, game one up in Ottawa, we're ready. We just had a great year, it's our first, all of our first playoff games. Besides, like Mark Recce and some vets, first period shots were 20 to nothing. Ottawa Jesus.

And it was something and I remember saying, like, Oh my God, like I went to a game, actually. When I was 11 years old. My dad took me to my first playoff game and and I said to him like, in the first period, I'm like, Dad, this is nuts. Why?

Why aren't the games always like this? He goes, cause they'd be dead by December. Like there is some ability for guys to just raise the game and 82 games, you got to pace yourself and it all ends once once. Well, this is Monday.

Once tonight starts, all right. So off of that similar, uh, betting question, I obviously like betting overs. Uh, Merle's, you can chime in here too, uh, and I know Elio is going to. I mean, we all saw Mr. Ice.

I love Mr. Ice, I'm a nice person. But last year in the playoffs, he was cold, things went bad. Uh, is it just simply guys are now willing to block shots?

That, that that changes everything. That's half of it. The other half is the refs start putting the whistles away. So there's less power plays in that and that's a major contributor to that.

Yeah, and empty netters guys are less likely to shoot. If it's going to result in icing, no. So they've changed. This is one of the things.

With analytics and and doing the the number, the number crunching back when I played and and forever before that. You never ice the puck and and even if you're up one goal, don't even risk it. But they figured out the odds of you making the shot are good enough. Where I sit every time, so you've got a one goal lead and you're and you're under pressure, just ice it.

Try to get that empty netter goal and if we don't get it, we'll win a face off. We'll live to fight another day. So they've changed completely. We're now up a goal, even in the playoffs, they're going to be going for it.

So that can help an over. But the NHL has got so ridiculous with the scoring. And every game was six and a half, now, a lot of games were seven. If it's a six and a half in the playoffs, that's tough to take. Yeah, that's scary.

Yeah, and so maybe we might see some games go down to six, but it's it's tough in the playoffs to be getting these eight goal games like we saw all regular season. Yeah, so the Bruins number one clear.

Number one, you said, the biggest disappointment in the history of hockey. If they don't win the Stanley Cup, who would be your second favorite coming out of the East?

So it's, it's, it's between the Devils and the Rangers. For me. Um, I know, uh, respect to the Rangers. I actually picked the Rangers in that series. Today we all picked him. Our our. One of our video guys is one of business closest friends.

So he's come on the team, we just bring our friends in Pasha. He's a devil's diehard. And the Devils were three, oh, and one against the Rangers this year. So they're kind of the they're, they're somehow the underdogs in the series. I don't really, I don't really get it, but the Rangers are set up to go on a long run.

I don't worry about Toronto, I think Tampa has done so much, it's just impossible to continue this. And even if Toronto does beat them, they then get the Bruins in the second round, which would be a great series. But Rangers Devil's winner, I think, goes on and plays the Bruins in the Easter Conference final.

Is that your same pick? Yeah, and I'll give you a little gambling hack on this. So if you like the Rangers, you'll get them at a plus 1,400 on Barstool Sports Book right now. But the only way they're going to win the Stanley Cup is if she's Sturgeon stands on his head.

You take him con Smythe plus 2,300.

Oh, I like that, so I'll be going over to Jersey tomorrow and doing my show. Sturgeon Con Smythe He's the best goaltender in the NHL, right? So I've gotten a lot of arguments with Rangers fans that just Sturgeon. Last year had a record breaking season a Vesna winner Best Best Goaltender award.

And Sorokin is a Russian. They played in the KHL together the same few years, Sorokin came over. I think a year later, they would play against each other CSK, SK in the finals every year when they were over there. And he was unreal.

He led the league in shutouts this year, he got, he pretty much got the Islanders into the playoffs. Connor McDavid We've had the McDavid discussion, we'll get into it.

He's MVP runaway, but the award is most valuable to his team. And without Sorokin, the Islanders probably were a lottery team. So I speaking of long shot bets, I put in something. I have something for the West. You broke my heart.

Yeah, yeah, we'll talk about that in a second, but and tell me, this is probably the dumbest thing. But Islanders to win the East 21 to one. Cause I. It's just basically, if you have a good goaltender, I don't think they're going to.

The Bruins are a lot better than them. This feels like, you know, the Rangers, like you were talking a lot better than them. But if you have a good goaltender, you got a fighting chance in the in the Stanley Cup playoffs. A guy gets hot. That's why Bruins fans were so scared of getting the Islanders first round. Florida lost their last game of the year to end up going to the eighth seed. And because of that, they don't have to deal with Sorokin.

And they get, and Islanders are getting a little healthier too, right? They got Barzel back who missed, I want to say, the last 25 ish games, so he's coming back, one of the best goalies. So the whole Carolina Islanders series is is very like, I would say, 50, 50 miles.

People are picking the Islanders a lot in that one. Yeah, I'm trying to find Sorokin cons my thoughts, cause that's the way to do it. Then the only way they're getting there, the same thing is what?

I'm going to pick them to win it, I'm going to pick them just to win the East. But then you can hedge plus plus 5,000. Oh, okay, okay, it's pretty good.

All right, so what? So you mentioned the leafs there? Are? They finally going to win a series? Okay? So we went over our Stanley Cup preview today for Chick, let's check it out.

Or, you know, it's going to listen to it, right? Yes, I'm so bad with figuring out that it's not today when we're whatever, so don't you podcast? That's how pathetic.

Yeah, I still can't figure out that this isn't today as we're listening, or you're listening. Sorry, I digress.

The leafs, the leafs are set up to finally do it. I went on this rant, I said, Did you want to get out of the first round? to get out of the first fucking round? 1998, uh, 2004, I believe it was, and um, they, they just had a monster year.

They made some great trades, they they grabbed a Noel Achari as a as a kind of a grinder, fourth line type guy that you need in the playoffs. They grabbed a Jake McCabe from the Chicago Blackhawks good defenseman, they grabbed Ryan O'Reilly, which is a consummate winner for the St.

Louis Blues, He was injured, he's back. They've all come together and they're playing a Tampa team who was horrendous the last 20 games. Like awful.

And because of that, it's Toronto's year, and then I said, Tampa and seven. I just refuse to pick the maple. Just so we're clear for everyone listening. When you say Toronto's year, you're literally just saying to win a series first round. That's how low the bar has gotten.

Now if they get out of the first round and the Bruins are, I think they get, they get rid of the Panthers in five. The Bruins and the Maple Leafs play unreal games. Every time they play, it's go seven games. It would be a hell of a series, but I'm just talking about winning one round in Ontario. It just comes down to, like the fact that they wear the Maple Leafs uniforms and they're the leafs, until they prove that they're no longer the leafs.

They are a true, a true disgrace of a franchise and Toronto fans. They hate me. But you just look at what they have. And granted, there's a salary cap, so there's no argument in terms of spending money. But like they are the epicenter of the hockey world, it's like everything goes through Toronto. Their fans are so cocky yet.

The team hasn't won a Stanley Cup since 1967. So they have this amazing young core. They have a A. You know, a GM who's kind of a wizard like he's been. He's been really good analytically and all these things. And they still can't get out of the first round like cowboys.

If they don't do it this year, I said, they should move the team, they should move the team in the airport. What? I don't want to start twitching, why don't you go to that little airport right by the city?

Because that I was sick, I was coming back from Edmonton. So if you're going to Toronto, Billy Bishop's perfect. It's like a little island. It's unreal easy.

Toronto Pearson International Airport is the worst airport on Earth. I spent 23 hours there. I could tell you that for a fact, I like that. Take the move.

The Maple leafs. Yeah, Hamilton, Yup, okay.